Miyake was born in
Aiea, Hawaii in 1971, and attended
Punahou School in
Honolulu, graduating in 1989. He studied Japanese language and literature at
University of California, Berkeley, and then studied linguistics at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, from where he obtained his doctorate in 1999, with a dissertation entitled The Phonology of Eighth-Century Japanese Revisited: Another Reconstruction Based upon Written Records.[1][2] He is best known for his work on the phonetic reconstruction of
Old Japanese, but is also known for his work on the extinct
Tangut language.
Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
ISBN0-415-30575-6.
Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). "Philological evidence for *e and *o in Pre-Old Japanese". Diachronica. 20 (1): 83–137.
doi:
10.1075/dia.20.1.06miy.
Miyake, Marc Hideo (2006).
"Kana’s Korean origins". In Françoise Bottéro & Redouane Djamouri (eds.), Ecriture chinoise: données, usages et représentations, pp. 185–205. Paris: CRLAO.
ISBN2-910216-08-X.
Miyake, Marc (2017). “Loanwords, Pre-Qín”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol 2, Rint Sybesma et al., eds., pp. 650-653. Leiden: Brill.
Miyake, Marc (2017). “Loanwords, Post-Qín, Premodern”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol 2, Rint Sybesma et al., eds., pp. 647-650. Leiden: Brill.